Top Ten CIO Award in Indochina: Honouring Chief Information Officers
At present, the role and responsibility of chief information officers (CIOs) isn't properly recognised in Indochina. In Vietnam in particular, there isn't any regulation of CIOs' contribution to their organisations. It is necessary to change the awareness of CIOs' roles and responsibilities with a clear and proper definition of what a CIO does and a promotion of their power to make and implement important decisions in their organisations. This will help improve enterprises' effectiveness, thus creating a solid position for them before integration into the world economy.
Three Indochina countries, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, are new members of ASEAN. The application of information technology in socio-economic development is the best way for them to avoid the risk of being left far behind other countries in the bloc. However, to that end, it is necessary to improve the awareness of and clarify the role, responsibility and quality of CIOs within organisations, recognising their contributions in information technology development and in the country's economic development.
Based on the initiative of IDG Vietnam, the National Steering Board on Information Technology Development has assigned the Institute of Information Technology for Businesses (ITB) under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) to co-operate with IDG Vietnam to organise the first presentation ceremony of awards for the top ten CIOs in Indochinese countries. This event will be held annually to honour excellent CIOs, who have made great contributions to promoting the application of information technology as a necessity in each agency, organisation and enterprise in the three countries.
Those individuals, organisations and enterprises, who record excellent results in developing and carrying out information technology projects, systems and initiatives, helping enterprises gain high effectiveness in terms of revenues, costs and profits, will be selected for the award. They will be voted on in two groups, operating in the fields of finance, banking, transportation, security, and oil and gas. The first group consists of State management agencies and the second, enterprises.
Vu Nga, director of ITB, said that on a basis of criteria for selecting CIO awards in the world, the organising board would develop its own criteria. According to these criteria, ministries, agencies, corporations, associations and localities will send their lists of nominees to ITB before April 30, 2005. A council will be set up by VCCI and IDG Vietnam will selected 30 candidates. A jury, whose members who will not come from State management agencies to ensure that their decisions are unprejudiced, with representatives from the Central Emulation Commission, the National Steering Board on Information Technology Development, the World Bank in Vietnam, IDG Asia-Pacific, IDG Indochina, and VCCI. The jury will interview candidates for its evaluation to select the top ten CIOs with three coming from State management agencies and seven, from enterprises.
The CIO award in Indochina has been established on a basis of IDG's global CIO trademark. IDG Vietnam has made some adjustments to make the award suitable with Indochinese countries. The award aims at not only honouring excellent CIOs in development and promotion of information technology in activities of organisations and enterprises but also popularising the experience of successful CIOs, as well as effective information technology projects and initiatives. The event will also boost the application of information technology in all economic sectors.
The award presentation ceremony will be held in Hanoi on May 29, 2005.
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